Jean Dreze

2 posts

Curious Bends - India's business-friendly budget, vanishing women farmers, a water-supply scare and more

Mar 10, 2015 3 min read

1. For its ignorance of human capital, the 2015 Budget was a step back into the Third World "Oddly, the recent Budget of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) junks these insights and goes back…

Caste, healthcare and statistics

Feb 9, 2015 3 min read

Uncategorized Amartya Sen Arundhati Roy casteism economic status healthcare Jean Dreze The Lancet

In late November 2014, the esteemed British medical journal The Lancet published an editorial calling for the end of casteism in India to mitigate the deteriorating health of the millions of rural poo…